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As you all know, after a hiatus, Rudolf Cornelissen, driver coder extraordinaire and all round good guy is back to his coding days, though much less hectic, fortunately. And what do you when a coder returns, if you're part of a site such as ICO? You ask questions of course. Rudolf, as always, was kind enough to take the time to answer them, and the result is what you'll read past the break. It's only 3 questions, since we didn't want to scare him with a barrage of enquiring phrases.

Now that you're bored from the intro, click below to read the Q&A. Thanks Rudolf. 

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François Revol, aka mmu_man, aka kung fu master, aka "Haiku's Carradine", has updated the Links Haiku port.. This is Links, the text and images browser, not to be confused with Lynx, which is the text only sibling. Links can for example use X11, or another GUI available, to display the site's images. As you can see from the screenshots below (thanks François), it's a basic but working browser. It's no Firefox and definitely no Internet Explorer (I kid, I kid), but it does what it's supposed to do. Good job François, now go finish the other stuff ;)

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Update: François got the graphics support almost done, as you can see in this screenshot.

Update 2: My apologies to Michael Lotz. As he rightfully wrote on his comment, he first brought Links to Haiku. When talking with François he stated that he was only updating the code, but I neglected to update the title and remove the part of the first sentence mentioning he was bringing it to Haiku. We even ran a piece on it! *smacks forehead*. So once again my apologies to Michael and thanks for correcting me. We all know how much I need that :)

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It's getting to that time of the year again, and I don't mean Christmas. The next Begeistert, the 18th is only about 6 weeks away. It'll take place on the weekend of January 12th and 13th and guess where? Back where it belong, at the Youth Hostel in Duesseldorf!! Putensteak at 4am anyone?

As always, you can expect having a great time, with fellow geeks all around, Haiku presentations, lots of (Be)sharing going on, etc etc. You can check the site for more information, including carpooling, if you need or are offering. I won't be attending this time, unfortunately, so I'm wishing everyone there a great time.

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So, you're browsing the web, using FireFox on BeOS or ZETA and you remember someone told you to look over on YouTube, an hilarious video about... something. What to do? You can reboot into Linux or Windows or... you can use the FakeFlash plugin! Following a simple set of instructions you too can watch all the YouPr YouTube videos you want.

All you need is, besides the browser itself, VLC, the FakeFlashPlugin, GreaseMonkey and finally the "Play and Download YouTube for BeOS" script, and you'll start enjoying the famous site from your own alternative OS. Here's the screenshot to prove it. Enjoy.

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I was (still am) in #haiku, over at Freenode, a few minutes ago, and François Revol (aka mmu_man) asked if anyone had vncviewer. After checking what was installed on Ubuntu, I replied and after a couple of attempts at connecting, I finally managed to do it. I was connected to a Haiku installation, remotely, using VNC.

François had a good idea, to use this as a Haiku web demo, or 2, or 3. Not only would it be useful for anyone wanting to try Haiku out and not having to download the image, but also for those demoing Haiku around the world. What do you guys and gals think? Check out the screenshot.

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It's awesome, it's great and it's better than the Linux version (due to personal testing. objections might occur). But this is great, mmu_man has written ported a HDA driver that works, at least for my system and might work for you too. And the sound is just amazingly good. Best wishes and KEEP IT UP :-) If it works on my main system i will write a review comparing the sound quality to both Windows and Linux. Stay tuned.

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Great news from Ryan Leavengood and his Haiku blog. His work on the port has been long and hard and a big milestone has just been reached: the WebCore now compiles under Haiku. Of course this doesn't mean the port and his work are over, far from it. There are still plenty of blood, sweat and tears to be shed (I'm reading Poe, so bear with me) but we're all rooting for Ryan and hope his work will come to a good end.

Head over to read his post. Great work Ryan. 

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Haiku has a couple of busy weekends, one of them happening as I write this. Starting today and ongoing till Sunday the 4th, Alchimie 7 is being help at Espace Rochegude, in Tain l'hermitage, France. During the weekend there will be a coding party, presentations, conferences and more. And, 15mns ago (if there were no delays), François Revol (aka mmu_man) started his presentation on "Porting OSS 4 to BeOS and Haiku", covering the planning, the porting, difficulties, etc of said port. But that's not all, oh no. Tomorrow, at 17h00 local time (16h00 GMT) both François and BeOSFrance's Rémi will do a presentation on Haiku, so if you're the area, plenty of time to attend it.

Now travel forward in time one week, and a few thousand Kms in space, going East, till you reach Japan. More specifically Osaka. On the 9th and 10th it'll take place this year's Kansai Open Source Forum. Koki will travel there, and together with Momoziro-san and also JPBe.net members, will handle the Haiku booth there. It's really great to see the community rally together and present Haiku to as many people as they can. If you're in the area (and in this case you really have to be in the area), drop by and say hello to them.

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Rudolf is back, as I'm sure you've read or heard by now. And with Rudolf back, you know what that means... nVidia driver coding. In his latest update, dated yesterday, he talks about the G80 series support, or lack of. At least for now. He considers the best option to be a separate accelerant just for the G80 and higher video cards.

Head over there and read his full post. 

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How the heck did I miss this one? I only now noticed that I don't have Haiku's feed here, only the blog feed. Silly, silly me. Five days ago, Stephan (aka stippi) wrote a piece on "reinventing Haiku", following Michael Phipps' departure, which was announced to the admin team at the end of August.

Stippi highlights some changes that will occur within Haiku, namely the creation of a single Developer Team, to take care of (you guessed it) everything which is development related. Oh the other side - but always on the same side - a new Transition Steering Committee wil be formed. This committee will be formed by some devs, admins and some community members, and will oversee the process of creating a body that will manage the project (the non-development part). Much more detail in Stippi's post, so head over and read it all.